Glücksburg (A 1414)

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FRG Naval Ensign
The Glücksburg in 1998 in the NOK
Ship class: Class 701 C
Type ship: Luneburg
Call sign / identifier: A 1414 /
until Nov. 30, 1981: DSFQ
from Dec. 1, 1981: DRKD
Development / construction yard: Blohm + Voss / Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft
Keel laying: August 18, 1965
Launch: May 3, 1966
Commissioning: July 9, 1968
Association membership Supply squadron in Wilhelmshaven
Data
Displacement: 3,450 ts (1968)
3,700 ts (1977)
Length over all: 114.3 m
Width: 13.2 m
Draft: 4.0 m
Drive:
Diesel (Maybach)
2 × 4,120 kW
(2 × 5,600 PS)
2 waves with 2 controllable pitch propellers
Speed: 17 knots
Crew: 99 men as the permanent crew
Armament

2 × 40 mm Bofors double mount
2 × chaff rocket launchers
2 × ship-to-air missile
defense Fliegerfaust FLF2 Mine
throwing capacity
Torpedo deception system Hand
weapons

The supply ship Glücksburg was a supply ship of the German Navy from 1968 to 2001 and was named after the town of Glücksburg (Baltic Sea) on the Flensburg Fjord .

The ship

The Glücksburg supplier was the fourth of a total of eight suppliers in the Lüneburg class . As part of the class 701 construction program , the ship was built and put into service on July 9, 1968 with the Hull number A 1414 and the international callsign DSFQ. The Glücksburg was subordinate to the 1st Supply Squadron in Kiel , but was stationed at the base in Olpenitz on the Baltic Sea. In the middle of 1975 there was a change of position to the 2nd supply squadron in the Wilhelmshaven base .

From August 1976 to April 1977 the Glücksburg was extended by 10 m due to increased supply requirements of the fleet and from then on it was run as a class 701 C unit. In 1981 the Glücksburg received the new DRKD callsign due to extensive reorganization of the international callsigns of NATO . In the middle of 1995 the reorganization from boat to ship took place, whereby the post of chief officer was established on board.

On April 1, 1997, it was placed under the subordinate squadron of the destroyer flotilla in Wilhelmshaven. She stayed here until she was decommissioned. On July 1, 2001, the Glücksburg was taken out of service and, with more than 300,000 nautical miles, decommissioned on November 1, 2001.

Until the decision to sell it to Egypt in May 2002, Glücksburg was in the naval arsenal in Wilhelmshaven. Up until the beginning of 2003, extensive conversions, overhauls and repairs were carried out on the ship.

Together with the ammunition transporter Halaib (ex Odenwald ) left Glücksburg in April 2003, now under the Egyptian flag, with a new crew and under its new name Shalatein Wilhelmshaven for the Mediterranean.

Transport capacity

  • 1,200 m³ of fuel,
  • 200 m³ fresh water,
  • 400 t ammunition,
  • 1,000 t of supplies

The crest

The coat of arms of the "Glücksburg"
coat of arms of the city of Glücksburg

The coat of arms that adorned Glücksburg is the coat of arms of the Schleswig-Holstein godfather town of Glücksburg (Baltic Sea) . It shows a gold shield with a red grate set upright with 16 square fields, the handle of which points downwards. The grate is glowing. The coat of arms is called "Der Rost des Laurentius ". The simple, expressive coat of arms refers to a Cistercian monastery founded in 1210 whose patron saint was St. Lawrence.

The sister ships

  • A1411 Lüneburg ( 1965–1994 )
  • A1412 Coburg ( 1965–1991 )
  • A1413 Freiburg ( 1966-2003 )
  • A1415 Saarburg ( 1966–1994 )
  • A1416 Nienburg ( 1966–1998 )
  • A1417 Offenburg ( 1966–1993 )
  • A1418 Meersburg ( 1966-2004 )

The crew

The usual crew of the ship consisted of 99 soldiers, including:

  • 7 officers
  • 11 Portepee NCOs
  • 26 NCOs
  • 55 team ranks

The commanders

In the 35 years of service at Glücksburg , 17 commanders served on board.

No. Surname Rank Period
1 Rudi-Ortwin Dannenberg Corvette Captain 07/09/1968 - 04/03/1969
2 Johannes Dohrn Corvette Captain 04/04/1969 - 31/03/1971
3 Karl-Friedrich Fendler Corvette Captain April 15, 1971 - October 22, 1973
4th Dieter Kraft Corvette Captain October 21, 1973 - June 24, 1975
5 Peter Witt Corvette Captain June 25, 1975 - September 30, 1975
6th Friedrich-Karl Teichmann Frigate captain October 01, 1975 - September 30, 1978
7th Hans-Wilhelm Krökell Lieutenant Commander , Corvette Captain 10/01/1978 - 08/27/1981
8th Gerhard Müller Lieutenant Commander, Corvette Captain 08/27/1981 - 03/31/1987
9 Werner Escherlor Corvette Captain 04/01/1987 - 06/29/1990
10 Jörg-E. Richter Corvette Captain June 29, 1990 - October 31, 1991
11 Rolf Gerriets Lieutenant captain (deputy) 11/01/1991 - 11/08/1991
12 Ingo Ullrich Lieutenant captain (deputy) 11/09/1991 - 11/28/1991
13 Bernd Telschow Lieutenant Commander, Corvette Captain 11/29/1991 - 10/4/1994
14th Torsten Eickriede Lieutenant Commander, Corvette Captain 04.10.1994 - 18.12.1997
15th Peter Ehring Frigate captain 12/18/1997 - 12/02/1998
16 Karsten Logemann Lieutenant Commander, Corvette Captain December 2nd, 1998 - January 5th, 2000
17th Wolfgang Telschow Lieutenant Commander, Corvette Captain 05.01.2000 - 01.11.2001

The former occupation

In 2002, former members of the Glücksburg crew created a website : A1414.net. This group formed in 2007 to the "Bordgemeinschaft Troßschiff Glücksburg ". The on-board community tries to preserve the memory and the history of the ship and hold an annual meeting.

Web links

literature

  • Siegfried Breyer, Gerhard Koop: The ships and vehicles of the German Federal Navy 1956-1976 . Bernard & Graefe, Munich 1978. ISBN 3-7637-5155-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. Website of the former crew members of the Glücksburg (a1414.net)